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Meaning and etymology of the name Accad
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Accad 
Accad is one of the cities from which Nimrod's kingdom extended:
"The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. From that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city." - Genesis 10:10-12
The word (akd) does not occur in Hebrew. Neither BDB Theological Dictionary nor NOBS Study Bible Name List nor HAW Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament translate.
The only word that is used in the Bible and which comes close to this name is a word derived from the unused root  (kdd), namely  (kad), meaning jar (Ecclesiastes 12:6).
It would only be a phonetic association (probably) but through this word Jar, the name Accad could be associated with the name Nebuchadnessar, the great Babylonian king, whose name to a Hebrew audience, may sounded a bit like A Prophet Is A Preservative Jar.
Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names sees relations to the verb  (agad) meaning to bind, hence fortify a city, and reads Band.
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